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Crypto Goes to Congress

15 Dec 2021 12 minute read 4 comments Rekt

As many of you have seen, the first Congressional hearing on digital assets occurred last week, inviting six of the largest stateside blockchain CEOs to testify and answer questions about their platforms and visions for the space. Many members of Con...

The Bug Bounty Evolution: Incentivizing White Hat Hackers

2 Dec 2021 6 minute read 6 comments Rekt

I was having a discussion with a person who was upset with someone he deemed to be unpalatable and concluded that this person, in his eyes, contributed nothing to our society. I retorted that every member of our society contributes something to the f...

Rekt Report: Ethereum Name Service "ENS"​: Airdrop & Naming Standards Use Cases

12 Nov 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Rekt

This week saw one of the largest airdrops in crypto with the $500 million+ value airdrop of the ENS token for holders of an Ethereum Name Service name, which would be, like, Rob.eth. This name could be used in cryptocurrency wallets, like Metamask, a...

Interview with Liliana Reasor of SupraFin, a Crypto Asset Allocation App

1 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Rekt

Had a great discussion with Liliana Reasor of SupraFin for LA Blockchain Summit. One of the most common mistakes among those dipping their toe into #crypto is unnecessarily concentrating investments into a singular project, like #Doge, #Shib, #Litec...

Defi Safety: The Gold Standard DeFi Watching-dog Platform with Rex Hygate

30 Oct 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Rekt

Did an interview with Rex Hygate of the well-regarded DeFiSafety watchdog platform. It's the equivalency of Moody's or Standards and Poors for #DeFi Platforms, providing a rating based on an exhaustive checklist of transparency measures imperative t...

Cannabis Industry Veteran Nick Tennant of Precision Extraction Discusses Marijuana Research & Industry Growth

1 Sep 2021 25 minute read 0 comments Rekt

  Today's Twitter Spaces Interview is with Nick Tennant of Precision Extraction, who runs of one of the largest cannabis extraction consulting firms. There's a lot of parallel growth between blockchain and cannabis industrial scaling.  Rob: Nick has...

Five Reasons Why Visa's Foray into NFTs is a Watershed Moment for Blockchain

24 Aug 2021 10 minute read 0 comments Rekt

Visa just spent $150,000 for a non-fungible token "NFT" of a digital punk from the CryptoPunks collection from the Larva Labs studio. This is a watershed moment for a number of reasons: 1) Visa is a monolith of a traditional financial institution fi...

Layer-2 Ethereum Virtual Machine Platforms, and Decentralized Apps on them, Are Heating Up These Scaling Sidechains

9 Aug 2021 16 minute read 0 comments Rekt

Increasingly, it’s becoming clear that community organization is as important as the technology that underlies a blockchain project. For blockchains using the Ethereum Virtual machine "EVM," effectively the same code and processes as the Ethereum mai...

DeFi Interview with Blockchain Watchdog Chris Blec (Audio)

3 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Rekt

Enjoyed sitting down with Chris and discussing DeFi, where he is an exceptional speaker, and several issues related to the THORChain exploit. Follow me here on Publish0x or my LinkedIn newsletter for more long-form articles and audio interviews for y...

THORChain Suffers a $7.8 million Dollar Attack. How a $1.4 billion Blockchain Behemoth Steadies the Ship.

3 Aug 2021 17 minute read 4 comments Rekt

Two weeks ago, the #65th largest cryptocurrency, at the time, with a $1.4 billion dollar valuation, suffered a $7.8 dollar attack--amounting to about 4,000 Ethereum coins held on the blockchain. Founded in 2018, THORChain is a cross-chain exchange th...